girl on the train review

If there is a story, that I’ve read by far, that has the most number of characters depicted as having challenges mentally, it would have to be this story. From the protagonist Rachel to the antagonist of the story, every one is suffering from something.

The start was a bit slow as it narrates her daily routine to and fro her seeming occupation. Until I find her fascination to Megan really too much, to the point that it affected her entirely and went way beyond, where she wanted to approach Megan, which she did and which started building up to the climax of the story.

Also, for an alcoholic, isn’t what she did after the tunnel incident too much? So much so that she pretended to a number of people that which she is not. She tangled herself up to others’ lives completely but maybe she is also this “sad person” who badly wants to help a missing person – well, a missing person that she seems to have an inclination to.

Until the story gets even more vivid, that I almost topple over my seat =)) , when I learned that those things she did or rather, her husband said she did, where actually the other way around. It was a really good twist! And I love twists like this one! And the person that you would least guess or not guess at all to be the culprit, turns out to be the one. It was insane.

Really, the story builds up from a slow to a very hook-onto-your-seat type of plot. In the end, I really pitied Rachel, for she really just wanted a good life – home, family and kids and had been perceived as the bad person in the story and turned out she isn’t. Though, she fought hard and strong not just for herself but for those entangled in the messy web of their lives brought about by Tom.